We ride our trusty bicycles most weekends. This blog charts our adventures and records our thoughts as we ride through the rural lanes of Surrey and Northern Kent – and there's some world travel thrown in too

Saturday, 5 October 2013

How much weight can we lose riding our bikes?

Just been checking out the calorie-burning potential of our cycling. It looks as if we can burn off around 1,365 calories on a Westerham ride and a shortish one-hour ride, to say Botley Hill and back, would burn off around 350 to 450 calories depending on which on-line calculator you rely upon. Considering men are supposed to take in roughly 2,500 calories per day, we're 'quids in' at the weekends so...bring on the frankfurters!

I can't remember the last time I was in Stockholm, but I think it was longer ago than I think. I almost stopped off here on the way to L...

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